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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

flock block

As much as I love free piecing quilts without a pattern, sometimes it's refreshing to piece traditional quilt blocks. This one is called the flock block. Each block finishes at 12". (Three complete blocks and one partial block is shown here.) When the blocks are rotated, it forms a neat secondary design. I made the block as I wrote a tutorial and I loved the design so much that I decided to keep going and make an entire quilt out of it.

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This is going to be for my youngest son, since he has been quite vocal about the the fact that there are way too many girl quilts going to the youngest member of our family. Such injustice in the world, I tell you.

That is a beautiful block! I think it's amazing how you can take a traditional design and make it contemporary by choice of fabric. And I find that it's hard to find good fabrics for "male" quilts - little boys are easy but once they get older it's hard to find appropriate fabrics. I'm currently hoarding old shirts of my husband's to use in one....

I like your color choices, and I do love traditional blocks/patterns too. I'm pretty sure we have WAY more girl quilts around here too, even though the boys outnumber the girls almost 3 to 1. The girly ideas just pop into my head, whereas I have to actually THINK about a boyish one. Thanks for the inspiration (as always).

So when do we get the gift of your wisdom? And if I need to pay for a pdf of the instructions, I am totally okay with that. Here's my paypal card, just email me. In fact just let me start a tab for all of them when the book comes out ! (I do wish you'd write a book and get published, although heaven knows that could take a year or more.)

My son (12 y/o) picked out the fabrics and the pattern for a new quilt. I've got the top 99% finished and it's been sitting in the UFO pile for almost a year now. My poor kids are always the last to get the good stuff.